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Article request: Sebastiani family, Great Wine Capitals of the World.

Expand: any of the ~700 wine stubs, particularly the region and "miscellaneous" ones, Western Australian wine

Improve: Canadian wine, Greek wine, Vitis vinifera, wine serving temperature, Western Australian wine, other Start class articles

Articles to GA: Wine, Australian wine, Bordeaux wine, Burgundy wine, California wine, Champagne (wine), Chianti, Dessert wine, French wine, German wine, Grenache, Italian wine, Merlot, Pinot gris, Pinot noir, Rioja (wine), Spanish wine, Sparkling wine, Syrah, Tempranillo, Winemaking

Articles to FA: Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Sauvignon blanc

Cleanup: Cleanup lists of wine-related articles: all articles and articles by category.

Unreferenced biographies of living persons

Copyedit: Aligoté, Cabernet franc, Malbec, Robert M. Parker, Jr., Pinot blanc, Rioja (wine)

Photo request: Just about all of them! Any pictures of wine regions, grape varieties or wine would be useful. In particular we need wine region maps that can be licensed for Wikipedia.

Collaboration: Operation stub-killer, Nominations for top level importance

Infobox: Template:Infobox grape variety, Template:Infobox winery

Other: Comment on the grape article template and on the grape infobox. Add to the Wikiquote page for wine: Wikiquote wine

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Comments & Suggestions

I took the liberty of updating the newsletter to the 15th April one :-)

One suggestion, on the definition of stubkilling, I think you're being a bit harsh including all the crappy Low stubs that we really don't much care about. To me, I work on 'diagonals' of the table on the WP home page.

Thus the top priority was to convert all the Top Stubs to Top Starts.

Once that was done, the second priority becomes to convert Top Starts to Top B's and equally to convert High Stubs to High Starts.

The third priority is then Top B -> Top GA, High Start -> High B and Mid Stub -> Mid Start

And so on. That implies that the best measure of how we are doing, given that we are currently in the middle of the second stage, is

( (number of Top Starts) + (number of High Stubs) ) / (number of Tops + number of Highs)

Once we've squished all those High Stubs and Top Starts, then we start a new measure that includes Top B's, High Starts and Mid Stubs.

just an idea, anyhow - it's just a more visible measure of progress, and it takes more account of us progressing with the more important articles in the project FlagSteward 17:43, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, math formulas were never my strong suit. :p But I can see the benefit in including the TOP/HIGH metric of stub killing success in the newsletter and will incorporate that into the next newsletter. Agne ^Cheese/^Wine 23:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really like this approach as the articles are improved in order of importance. ◄scharks► 09:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]